Forked packages for OLPC

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 10:27 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:28 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote:
> > > > ./xorg-x11-utils/OLPC-3
> > > dropped some dependencies
> > > > ./sugar-evince/OLPC-3
> > > minimal evince for the XO,  should be in fedora and pulled in from
> > > there
> > > > ./SDL_mixer/OLPC-3
> > > Droped perl
> 
> I suspect, but don't know for sure, that for a more serious fedora
> "conventional" desktop we're stuck with the footprint for Perl.  But
> this will take some dependency analysis to figure out.

Sadly, this is probably the case.  I've spent time in the past trying to
exorcise the demon that is perl without much luck. :-)

> > > its a subset of csound for the XO,  we should make it so that csound
> > > provides the minimal needs of OLPC
> 
> Yes, we don't want to carry a tk/tcl dependency, which, believe it or
> not, is built into csound as a standard "feature", where csound programs
> might do UI.  This is a very slippery slope for us; not only does tk/tcl
> carry a substantial footprint in RAM and storage, but tcl's I18N
> facilities are very poor and  we don't want people to be coding in this,
> setting us up for localization headaches.

What's csound used for?  Maybe it makes sense to try and move to
something which doesn't require the ugliness of tcl/tk.

Jeremy